Reducing weight of gear-selector damping weight

[NickCLotus]

Any thoughts on cutting this weight in half to lighten it? It is on an MA5 gearbox on a Peugeot 307.

Ever since I have had the car I have found it to have a "slow" gear change, now I understand why,.I didn't realise the gear selector had this 1kg lump sitting under there. However removing this does make the gear change a bit notchy and less smooth.

I did this while trying to track down the cause of occasional stiff gear change. Lubricated all of the selector cables and mechanism but didn't seem to make much difference. Moving the Gear Selector Weight by hand was fine and didn't feel like it was sticking but removed it anyway. This seems to have improved matters substantially but need to do more testing to be sure.

Also noticed that the forward/back gear selector arm which comes out the top of the gearbox can be pulled up by about 7mm; don't know if this is normal and whether it matters or not, perhaps they are all like that.

Thinking about reducing the weight of this before refitting it so as to reduce the notchyness but also avoid that slow gear change, might that work?

Being cast what would I cut it with; manual hacksaw, electric jigsaw, angle-grinder, reciprocating saw?

Edited by NickCLotus on Saturday 13th December 11:51

[E-bmw]

I would suggest an angle grinder might be easiest, you could try starting with just half of the bottom leg of the "L" shaped end and try again.

[stevieturbo]

Grinder would probably be easiest ? But it should saw easy too, whatever tools you have.

I wonder what their reason for this was ? Or just drill holes in it to lighten lol Cutting a whack off easiest.